As huge lovers of the romantic and dramatic vampire genre, we were super excited to get our hands on pictures from the set of the popular movie series, Twilight.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part 1) is the first half of the fourth and final installment of this crowd-pleasing cinematic spectacle of vampires, werewolves, blood-lust, and teenagers in love. While we love vampire movies, much of the music that accompanies such films isn’t just goth and moody–it’s downright cacophonous.

So we made it our mission to find Ten Mellow Songs About Vampires & Blood and we think we succeeded. Check out these ten songs from artists like [lastfm link_type=”artist_info”]Norah Jones[/lastfm], [lastfm link_type=”artist_info”]Tori Amos[/lastfm], [lastfm link_type=”artist_info”]Neil Young[/lastfm], and [lastfm link_type=”artist_info”]Paul Simon[/lastfm] that delve into the darkside of a fairytale world without losing the pretty, sparkly touches that make vampires so alluring.

Sort of like the 12-bar blues version of almost any goth song about vampires, Neil Young puts his usual guitar-driven backdoor blues touches on an obviously metaphorical song about craving someone so bad, they feel like a vampire:

I’m a vampire, babe/suckin’ blood from the earth/I’m a vampire, baby/suckin’ blood from the earth/Well, I’m a vampire, babe/sell you twenty barrels worth.

8. “Blood Roses”-[lastfm link_type=”artist_info”]Tori Amos[/lastfm]

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Tori Amos is renowned for writing songs about women that have been used and abused by men. “Blood Roses” is of the same vein, except it alludes to the vampiric quality of a man who would suck the life out of you.

The vampire metaphor is furthered by Amos making mention of what is easily the literary vampire capital of the world–New Orleans:

The Belle of New Orleans tried to show me/Once how to tango/Wrapped around you feet/Wrapped around like good little roses

The least mellow song of the bunch, My Chemical Romance is an extremely popular mainstream band that knows how the constant struggles of being a musician can suck you dry, fearful that they will be “struck down, before our prime/before you got off the floor/can you stake my heart?/can you stake my heart?”

6. “Crying Blood”-[lastfm link_type=”artist_info”]V.V. Brown[/lastfm]

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British soul chanteuse with the big band slant, V.V. Brown, might not sound like it in her song, but she is so heartbroken that she is “crying blood”:

I’m crying tears from my eyes that I can’t deny/And I am falling like a comet from the broken sky.

When’s the last time you saw someone cry blood? Only vampires cry blood! And her name V.V. looks like fangs! We are onto you Brown.

In Nerina Pallot’s song, “Blood is Blood,” Pallot sings that bloodletting–whether metaphorical or literal–is an inevitable part of nature that even humans enjoy and detest as much as those pallid bloodsuckers:

If blood is blood, then blood will flow/That’s all it does, that’s all it knows/But i’ve one question, I want something/I want more/So flesh is flesh, an urgent fire/It drags you down, this cheap desire

Sometimes the most melancholy songs are the most beautiful, as is the case for Indigo Girl’s “Blood and Fire.” Another song about the painful agony of love that alludes to bloodshed being the only option for expression:

I have spent nights with matches and knives/Leaning over ledges, only two flights up/Cutting my heart, burning my soul/Nothing left to hold/Nothing left but, blood and fire

As Bella knows, being in love with a vampire can be pretty…morbid.

1. “The Vampires”-[lastfm link_type=”artist_info”]Paul Simon[/lastfm]

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Actually, this is probably a song about a gang, but this tropical-tinged vampire ditty from Paul Simon (complete with some sassy NSFW language, so be careful), is our favorite vampire song we’ve heard by far. Hooligan vampire kids set to a Simon-esque rhythm? Can you say perfect movie soundtrack song?

Come here, I want to show/you something/This is the cave of The Vampires/Count Dracula’s castle/The very sight could turn a white man grey/Made in the shade, use my umbrella/Black like the night we fly in/That blade is all you need to keep the dogs away/So, you want to be a vampire, man! That’s good/We always looking for young blood in the neighborhood now

Are you excited to see Breaking Dawn in November? Let us know in the comments!